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NHLA was awarded the 2022 Nonprofit Impact Award from the New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits. Check out NHLA Executive Director, Sarah Mattson Dustin's, acceptance speech in the video below.
NHLA's mission is to fulfill America’s promise of equal justice by providing civil legal services to New Hampshire’s poor, including education and empowerment, advice, representation, and advocacy for systemic change.
We offer our clients high-quality civil legal aid to address the legal problems that affect their daily survival and most basic needs. These services range from simple legal information and advice to vigorous and thorough representation in all of New Hampshire's courts and before many of the local, state and federal agencies which play large roles in their lives. In providing legal services to the poor, NHLA helps ensure the legal system provides the fairness and justice that all New Hampshire residents deserve.
NHLA does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, and gender identity, in the delivery of services.
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NHLA priority issues
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NHLA, Pro Bono expand program to help low-income debtors
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Latest News
Welcome to our NHLA 2022 Summer Interns
Posted Jun 03, 2022NH Legal Assistance welcomed our summer legal interns this week. They are going to spend the next three months working closely with NHLA advocates in and out of the courtroom. We sat down with each of them so they could share a little bit about themselves and why they are excited to be immersing the ...read more
NHLA Executive Director Sarah Mattson Dustin and NH Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald testify in favor of HB 1343
Posted Apr 18, 2022Sarah Mattson Dustin, Executive Director of New Hampshire Legal Assistance, joined the New Hampshire Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on April 14 to testify in favor of HB 1343. Accompanying her to voice support for the bill was NH Supreme Court Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald. At the end of the he ...read more
Candace Gebhart retires from NHLA, leaves lasting impact on legal aid community
Posted Mar 25, 2022Over the last 15 years, few at New Hampshire Legal Assistance have been more instrumental in providing essential services to clients than Candace Gebhart. The range of her advocacy is extraordinary, covering access to shelter for homeless persons and families, preventing evictions, enforcing the rig ...read more
New Hampshire Legal Assistance Receives $195,000 Grant from Point32Health Foundation
Posted Feb 24, 2022New Hampshire Legal Assistance (NHLA) was awarded a three-year, $195,000 grant from Point32Health Foundation to support the statewide advocacy movement focused on the health and wellbeing of older Granite Staters. “We are extremely grateful to Point32Health for its generous support," said Cheryl ...read more
Legal Aid Advocates and UNH Law Students Help 100+ Households with Eviction Cases
Posted Jan 06, 2022Legal aid advocates from NHLA and 603 Legal Aid established eviction clinics to help tenants prepare for their hearings and give them an opportunity to negotiate with their landlords for additional time to apply for rental or utility assistance. Students from the UNH Franklin Pierce School of L ...read more
